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After All This Time.

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Chapter Eighty Nine: After All This Time.

The air was thick and hot and tasted like dust. Julian had been crammed in the tight, dark space above the ceiling for two whole days.

A sub-ceiling crawlspace…a forgotten vein in the building’s body. He had survived on protein bars that tasted like chalk and sips of warm water.

A small, hidden earpiece played quiet classical music, a lifeline to keep the creeping claustrophobia and the pounding in his skull from driving him insane.

The pain was a whi
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